Thursday, August 4, 2016

Really America? Really?

Contributed
by B F Koch

ITITY
Political Theater Critic

We stared
at our flat screens for four awful nights as an incoherent procession of
two-bit buzzards stripped the last sinews of respect from the bones of the
Republican Party and nominated for president the spray-tanned personification
of their own paranoid insanity.

A delusional
Rudy Giuliani ranted about the terrorists under our beds, Chris Christie’s maniacal
lynch mob was ready to hang Hillary from the rafters, and the candidate’s poor wife
had to borrow some of the words she used trying to humanize her husband.

The
days following this surreal spectacle saw the slighted child who would be
commander in chief throw an infantile Twitter tantrum against a grieving gold
star family, then casually quip that receiving a Purple Heart as a gift was easier
than earning it.

He said
that he knows more about ISIS than the generals, that he could have stopped
9/11, and may have recently revealed his plan for how he alone could put an end
to all our problems when he asked why we don’t just use our nuclear weapons.

His
mental stability has been questioned since his birther beginnings. Pundits continuously
claim he’s at last crossed that line, and that his shameless self promotion is
finally imploding. But the one thing this campaign has made absolutely clear is
that for most of Trump’s supporters, there is no too far.